New House.. New Home

We lived with my in-laws for 4 months. 4 long misrisible months. My in-laws can be great, but NOT to live with. But we found a great house, in a great place. A little pricer for my area, but still great none the less, still unpacking, and working on make this house, a happy home.

We're going to bring in the New Year in with a bang!

After my last moderately depressing post, about the hard times we are going through, this is going to be much more positive. After all it is Christmas time. With Christmas only 9 days away, I am trying too be happy and jolly. We bought our own christmas presents this year to make it easier on us, with the moving, the planning, and the busy times. Since we are going to stay with my mother in-law and be with her on christmas, up until Adalynn and I leave to go see my family for a while, we are having our own Christmas before hand. Getting our own gifts may not be as exciting, as giving gifts to eachother watching eachother unwrap them. Its the way to do it, with being so busy, I have about one week left, to pack up my house apartment, and get everything out. We havent really started, but we dont have a whole lot, that is the upside to all of this. Now we are working hard at making plans, figuring out what is best to do to fix our situation, and keep it fixed so we wont have to move again in a year. Now here pretty soon, we will have our car 100% paid off, woo hoo! Go us! Its very exciting to me, I may not drive it, but its more money in savings. Now, we are going to be working very hard at paying off everything. And on an even brighter note I get to see my family again! I have seen them more this past year then I have in a long time, I am going to miss Matt, and so is Adie, but we are going to visit family and have a good time with them. I am excited too see them, and when we come back, we will have money saved to get a place to live, I just hope that finding a place will be easy. So my goals for the new year is to get on good and stable financial path.  Unfortunate things can happen, but you can change the way things go in life if your attitude is more positive. I do have more goals, for me, however I will get into that in another post.

Hard Times, and positive thinking.

Right now, life is really challanging me. But what would life be if it wasnt challenging me. We moved into this beautiful new apartment a couple months ago. About a week ago, we find out they are raising our rent. And there is nothing we can do about it. And we can no longer afford to live here. BUMMER! so now, me and Adalynn must be seperated from Matt for a while. Me and her are going to visit my family, in pennsylvania for a while, so Matt can save up enough money and find us a new place to live. That was the hard times of it, christmas time, broke and having to move out ASAP. Okay, so the positive part now, the brightside, I get to see my family A LOT sooner than what I was thinking I was. YAY  I've missed them so much. This will give me and Matt some time apart, something I feel every relationship needs now and again. I think it willl be good for us to get some distance. Not that things are bad between us. We are good in fact. But you need surround your life with diversity, and be around all sorts of people. And its very hard for me to get out these days. Not just because I have a 2 year old, who I am trying to potty train, but because I live farther away from my friends and the family I have here. But with this move, after we get a place we will be closer to family. Hopefully this will be the last move for A LONG time. I say that everytime. But seriosusly, I hate moving, its time consuming and too much work. So when hard times come along like now for me. Try to stay positive, life goes by too quickly to be negative all the time. 

Party Planning is exausting!

As Adalynn's party approaches, it feels like theres more and more to do. As my wonderful Grammy is coming to town for her birthday. I will see her Sunday, so not only do we have a birthday party I have family coming. So I am cleaning my apartment from top to bottom, baking cakes, traveling to my in-laws for the party, as well as my father in-laws halloween party. Its very busy weekend, so I am spending my friday night, packing, cleaning, doing laundry and baking. Its very exausting, I normally dont go to bed till 6 AM and here I am at 20 after 10 and I am exausted! Well I guess I better get back to work. I will post a blog post sometime this week of the party.

Moving!

Oh yeah, we are moving to a new apartment this weekend! I can finally use my washer again instead of the god awful coin laundry I am having to use now. I can't wait I am so excited. This place has everything I want in home. It reminds as far as what our home had when we lived in the military only better, from the inside it looks quite new. It has 1 1/2 car garage, we are on the second floor. And we are on the 2nd floor which isnt a big deal to me at all. It had new carpeting dark brown. I love dark carpeting because stains arent as noticable. It has two bedroom both have closets, the master bedroom has a walk in closet as well as its own bathroom, it has a beautiful kitchen with tons of counter and cabinet space, and little dinning area over to the side of the kitchen that is carpeted as well. And we can even get a pet! woo hoo! I have been wanting a kitten for sometime now, and now I have no housing restriction saying I cant. Its perfect place, with a perfect price for our family. I just hope we can own a home as beautiful as this place is one day. I would like thank my Grammy for helping me out on finding the perfect home for next few years. We hope 5 years or so down the road  we will be owning a new home.

Oh its fall!

I love this time of year, when the leaves change colors. You see pumpkins all around, and its finally boot season. I really love all my boots! Not only all that. But every year, I get excited about baking and redecorating. This year, we are hopefully moving into our new apartment. I am very excited to settle down. But we really dont have a lot of stuff to make it look homey. So I have been researching on how to make an apartment look homey. I am excited, I cant wait to get area rugs, hang up pictures, light candles, and of course get everythiing organized. It would make me feel very much relaxed and happy. And when  can finally bake a pie, cookies, cakes, or something that would make me happy. I love fall, or autumn as some poeple call it. There's so many fun things about it.

The natural way..

Today was my first trip to a cloth diaper store. They had a lot of natural parenting and just natural things.. It was neat, They had soaps, all natural toys, babywear things like moby wraps. It was pretty interesting to me. I dont really follow the natural parenting way, as far as disciplining or parenting in general. We do cloth diaper and I did breastfeed but thats about it. Something did catch my eye that I may have to go back for, and that is Mama Cloth, it interested me. It makes sense all in all.. if cloth is good enough for her, what about me? I dont think I could go all out on cloth and get Family Cloth, I could never touch something my husband, or any other guest wiped their butt with. But I could swing for reusuable cleaning towels and napkins, but reusable toilet unpaper and tissues grosses me out.. I guess thats where I draw the line. But the toys intrigued me too.. all natural wooden, it was all pretty nice in my opinion. We did get new fluff! We got six Chinesse Blue Edge Prefolds.  6 BumGenious 4.0 One Size, One FuzziBunz Perfect Size, medium size diaper, and a pair of babylegs...

 This is what a prefold looks like before it is prepped...

 BabyLegs

 BumGenious 4.0 OS in Blossom... The othe colors are Zinnia(darker pink),Bubble(light purple), Butternut(light yellow),Clementine(yellowish orange), grasshopper(light green)

FuzziBunz Perfect Size, Size medium in Grape